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We’re opening a new cinema in the heart of Surfers Paradise! The 12 screen cinema complex is set to open as a part of the X Galaxy Centre redevelopment in late-2019. After the closure of the Hoyts complex in 1995, our new location, situated on the corner of Surfers Paradise Boulevard and Elkhorn Avenue, represents […]

CAPI Outdoor Cinema @ Westgarth will be lighting up the night sky from Saturday, December 2. The outdoor cinema will be located at the rear of the art-deco icon Palace Westgarth, adjacent to the historical exterior of the building. Our 30 seat cinema with high-definition headphones features murals and up-cycled furniture created by cinema staff […]

West-side dwellers, we’re coming for you! We’re delighted to announce the development of a new twelve-screen Palace Cinema on Puckle Street in Moonee Ponds, which will include three platinum screens and an outdoor cinema space. The cinema will be part of a stylish retail, hospitality, accommodation and leisure development by Giancorp Property Group right in […]

We’re thrilled to announce that a new bar and café called Overlook has opened adjacent to the Astor Theatre. Inhabiting a space vacated recently by a launderette, Overlook takes its name from the iconic Overlook hotel featured in Stephen King’s 1977 novel, The Shining. Visually brought to life in the 1980 film adaption by master […]

We are thrilled to announce that we will be opening a new cinema, Palace Central, in the multi-award winning development, Central Park Mall, in Sydney’s Chippendale. The new 14 screen complex on Level 3 of the centre will open in late 2017 and will also uphold the building’s ‘green’ ethos, utilising technology which will use […]

The BBC First British Film Festival, now in the fourth year, has grown from strength-to-strength and almost doubled in size from its original incarnation. We sat down with the festival’s programming Manager, Kim Petalas, to talk about the best of British Cinema and of this year’s festival. BBC First British Film Festival runs across October and November and tickets are now on sale, here http://britishfilmfestival.com.au/

TAKING FIVE FOR THE BBC FIRST BRITISH FILM FESTIVAL

1. What do you love especially about the world of British Cinema?

Australians enjoy a great affinity with British cinema, we understand their dramatic sensibility and adore their humour. We identify with their characters and we see them as real people.

2. What are some of your favourite British films?

Some of the best British films I have seen include BRIEF ENCOUNTER, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, HOWARDS END and I, DANIEL BLAKE is my contemporary favourite.

3. What are your highlights from this year’s BBC First British Film Festival?

I Daniel Blake, Their Finest, A Quiet Passion and A Monster Calls.

4. There is a retrospective in this year’s programme “ Local Heroes”, there must have been so many great films to choose from. How did you narrow it down to only 10 films?

It was important to showcase box office heroes (Carry On Series), Award Heroes (Oliver, Room at the top) and pay homage to some of the great British Actors Sean Connery, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Jeremy Irons and David Bowie. I was able to select some of their greatest work.

5. Finish this sentence, KEEP CALM AND…

… see both the best in contemporary and retrospective British Cinema at the BBC British Film Festival!

And there you have it, some of the festival’s highlights from the programmer himself. What will you see at this year’s BBC First British Film Festival?